Last Wednesday, when jihadi fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) captured Azaz, a Syrian town barely four miles from the Turkish border, alarm bells sounded in Ankara, Brussels and Washington. An al-Qaeda …

Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have fled their country’s brutal and increasingly sectarian civil war for refuge across the border in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. The conditions at the Domiz camp may be squalid, …

Samira Selo cradled her 2-year-old on her hip and looked across the low valley toward Syria, a country that until a month ago she called home. Some sheep and goats grazed nearby. Behind her, in the old tiny tent she, her husband